And I just saw the little comment... considerably different, haha. Not really, I and many others have X99 motherboards and i7-5820Ks... but then there are people who went even further and got the 5930K or 5960X... no one is a special unique butterfly here.

And I just saw the little comment... considerably different, haha. Not really, I and many others have X99 motherboards and i7-5820Ks... but then there are people who went even further and got the 5930K or 5960X... no one is a special unique butterfly here.

Some context.

I copied most of the post from our guild forum where we discuss this stuff. We build a lot of computer builders in Tyranny. We have had a running "guild standard build" since 2010 that's been Z68->Z77->Z87 -> Z97->Z170. It's been a kind of $1200 model build that I'm sure you can image (Core i5 K, Z motherboard of the time, the memory of the time, a Geforce GTZ x70, ever larger SSD). Most are Z170 as of late (or previously, Z97). People buy parts, send them to me or somebody else, we build them and send them back. In the guild, I'm the only one with with a X99, which is why I said that.

Our build is like Unicorn, but with Corsair and MSI parts (I love MSI's UEFI). We put i a NH-D15 or H100i depending what people want. Cases have generally been corsair, but we just switched to the NZXT H440, which I really, really like.

And as for thermal compound got this. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0045JCFLY and as for disc drive I'll just reuse my current crappy one. And as for CPU cooler already got a 6 month old 212 evo so might as well stick with it. Tbh might cheapen it a bit and get a quad core and a 950.

Last edited by Eleccybubb; 2016-07-23 at 12:01 AM.

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Honestly I think I could go a little further... maybe I won the silicon lottery. I'm not an overclocking enthusaist or expert or anything. I've been doing it for many years casually and the routine's the same: find a guide with my mobo/CPU combo that is a "high but safe" overclock that anyone with that chip can hit and gradually step it up (though I dont normally do an 8 hour stability test) until it fails. I mean there are guides online for 4.6GHz / 1.35v overclocks with the 5820, but I'm not going to go that far.

Honestly I think I could go a little further... maybe I won the silicon lottery. I'm not an overclocking enthusaist or expert or anything. I've been doing it for many years casually and the routine's the same: find a guide with my mobo/CPU combo that is a "high but safe" overclock that anyone with that chip can hit and gradually step it up (though I dont normally do an 8 hour stability test) until it fails. I mean there are guides online for 4.6GHz / 1.35v overclocks with the 5820, but I'm not going to go that far.

I'd love a link to the guide you used, if you wouldn't mind! I'd like to see what this chip is actually capable of, but I'm merely the OC leaderboard posterboy, I don't know all the ins and outs of it, especially when it comes to bus speed-tweaking.

I'd love a link to the guide you used, if you wouldn't mind! I'd like to see what this chip is actually capable of, but I'm merely the OC leaderboard posterboy, I don't know all the ins and outs of it, especially when it comes to bus speed-tweaking.

I did all of that, then slowly moved the Voltage and Multiplier up (to test stability) to hit 4.5. I keep the lower values used in the video Vcore = 1.275 and Multiplier (CPU Ratio in the bios) = 34, as a back up. But those are the only differences.

At around 1:50 he starts to fiddle with the Bus (base is 100, sets it to 125).

A nice side effect from my perspective is the uniformity of it. I build computers for my guild and over the last couple of years, with one exception, it's been all MSIs. Whenever there is a problem (such as one time when I was a little over ambitious with a guildie's overclock, that became unstable in later use), I could walk them through fixing it over the phone just by looking at mine.

Hell my i7 930c was still working quite well. One of biggest reason to upgrade was that my particular X58 still had a BIOS. UEFIs didnt get big till the next board iirc.

Sadly my old led lights from my former pc stopped working so ill fix that later and im not that happy about the cable management behind the mobo but im gonna fix that when its not that hot outside and i also still have my old SSD's in my pc that i have to take stuff off.

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It's the stats in sig. A 40-inch screen with 3840x2160 resolution. Eats GPU for breakfast.
Obsidian 350D
i7-4790K @ 4.6 GHz
ASUS Maximus VII Gene Z97 µATX
32GB DDR3
MSI Geforce GTX 1080 Gaming X at 2GHz+
500GB Samsung 840 EVO (no perf. degradation tyvm)
And some WD Reds striped for more games, video scratch and stuff.
Not pictured here, but it is connected with a long cable managed HDMI cable to my living room TV. I'm thinking of putting up a monitor on the left wall as well.

Then we have the bedroom PC.
It is basically a combo of my old HTPC (not so much used since main PC is connected to the TV, and AppleTV takes care of the rest) and old PC parts.
2x LG IPS 1920x1080 23" each. Can't get rid of them, they are simply too good.
i7 2700K @ 4.8 GHz
Asus Maximus V Gene Z77 µATX
16GB DDR3
Geforce GTX 980 Reference
128GB Samsung 830 Series SSD
2x WD Caviar Black 1TB striped, again to accommodate for more games and stuff.

Case is Phanteks Enthoo EVOLV. It's nice to build in but ended up not liking how it looks, it's size (even bigger than the 350D, which is big for micro ATX) and it's essentially a big echo chamber in there. Loud..

Aaand yees there is Ethernet in the walls and sockets are virtually everywhere Gotta love buildings built around 2004, right before people got lazy and thought of Wi-Fi as all you need.